Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima

Ms. Fukushima is President of G&S Global Advisors Inc., a consulting firm that advises clients on issues related to the globalization of human capital and corporate governance. Before establishing G&S Global Advisors Inc. in 2010, Ms. Fukushima was Chairman - Japan and a Senior Client Partner based in Tokyo at Korn/Ferry International - Japan, providing human capital consulting services to multinational corporations operating in Japan. She served as a member of Korn/Ferry’s global board of directors from 1995 to 2007.

Prior to joining Korn/Ferry in 1991, Ms. Fukushima was a Consultant at Bain & Company, a major strategic management consulting firm, first in Boston and later in Tokyo. Her clients included American, European, and Japanese multinational corporations spanning a range of industries. Prior to that, she worked as a summer associate at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She served as a Japanese instructor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, 1974-80.

Ms. Fukushima was director and Vice Chairperson (2011-2015) of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) and a member of the advisory board of the Development Bank of Japan (2008-2017). She currently serves as Vice Chairperson of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors. Over the past 20 years, she has served on the board of directors of 13 major Japanese corporations and was the first woman to serve as a board member of such leading firms as Kao, Sony, Benesse, Bridgestone, Ajinomoto, J. Front Retailing, Mitsubishi Corp., and Konica Minolta. She was also a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.

She has served on several government advisory councils, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Ms. Fukushima is the author of several books, including The Marketable Global Executive. She is co-translator (into Japanese) of Japan As Number One: Lessons for America by Ezra F. Vogel and On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism by David Riesman.

In 2004, she received wide media attention in Japan and abroad as one of only two women serving on the board of directors of the 27 Japanese companies listed on Fortune’s top 200 global companies. In 2008, Business Week selected her to be on the list of “The World’s 100 Most Influential Headhunters” (one of nine women and the only Japanese).

Ms. Fukushima received a B.A. from Seisen University in Tokyo and a Certificate for Japanese Teaching from the International Christian University. She also received an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.